1. What is the problem? Reading in Kindergarten


2. What is the rational for the project? Teachers and principals say that their students struggle in this area.

3. What strategy will be used to address the problem? Rhyming games to help students recognize rhyme and word families in text to expand their phonemic awareness. Assessing them before, during , and after the project.

4. What is the question? How can I use a variety of rhyming games to help my students recognize ryme and word families in text?

5. What evidence is presented that the strategy will work? Teaching students to decode words through word families, or “phonograms,” makes it possible for them to quickly identify unfamiliar words by using spelling patterns instead of sounding out letter by- letter. ( Wylie and Durrel (1970)

6. How will data be collected? Pre-test, model and demonstration, rhyme and memory, observation, literature reading,

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